This week we have celebrated World Nursery Rhyme Week.

On Monday our Nursery Rhyme of the day was Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. We drew around each other and labelled the parts of the body. We learned the actions and listened to the rhyme in English, Rumanian, Bulgarian and Bengali and Mrs Maltby taught it us in French:

 

On Tuesday our Nursery Rhyme of the day was Incy Wincy Spider. We talked about the number 8 and found different ways to make number 8 using our fingers and our legs. We practised writing the number 8 in shaving foam and put 8 peg legs onto the spider’s bodies:

         

 

 

On Wednesday our Rhyme of the Day was Sleeping Bunnies. On Thursday our Rhyme of the Day was Down in th Jungle. We learned the song, described jungle animals for our friends to guess the animal and went on a jungle animal hunt into the forest. Where we wrote and drew about the animal we found:

                

 

On Friday we dressed in our own clothes for Children in Need. We talked about what we were wearning and what Children in Need and Pudsey Bear mean. We did lots of Children in Need activities:

 

What a fun, busy week we’ve had!

 

Next week we will be celebrating Travel Ted’s birthday. Many of the children have been talking about birthday parties and making birthday cakes with play dough; to follow their interests many of our activities next week will focus around preparing for Travel Ted’s  birthday party which will be on Friday.